Congress must reauthorize PEPFAR to keep up the fight against HIV/AIDS. Here's three reasons why.
Caroline Rourke
Janet Kallon is an auditor, activist, entrepreneur – and a 2023 Mandela Washington Fellow. She calls Sierra Leone home but, for the month of August, she worked out of ONE’s Washington, D.C. office as part of her fellowship, which champions young African leaders.
Learn more about Janet, in her own words:
Q: Tell us a little about yourself!
I’m Janet, and I’m from Sierra Leone. I’ve been a dedicated advocate for 10 years! In my day job I help provide audits and...
On this day, twenty years ago, President George W. Bush signed the US Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, forever altering the global fight to end preventable disease.
The bill authorized the program we now know as PEPFAR, which has helped save 25 million lives from HIV/AIDS since 2003. When PEPFAR was approved by both chambers of Congress, then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the New York Times that PEPFAR was a “truly historic leap that may...
In a letter co-authored by Christian musician Michael W. Smith and Christian emcee and poet Propaganda, among others, more than 80 faith leaders from all 50 states and across faith traditions asked Congress to reauthorize the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which has helped save 25 million lives from HIV/AIDS since its creation in 2003.
Faith leaders have been essential to the creation & success of @PEPFAR & its work to end #AIDS.
Significant to see so...
On International Women's Day, we're taking a closer look at how PEPFAR in its historic efforts to combat HIV/AIDS has helped advance the health, education, and economic empowerment of women and girls in Africa.
By the Numbers
PEPFAR's contributions to global health extend far beyond its incredible progress against HIV/AIDS:
Maternal Mortality
A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that, over the course of the program's existence, PEPFAR countries saw significant reductions in both maternal and child mortality to...
This blog features excerpts from a recent interview of Representative Barbara Lee (D-California) in The Bush Centers journal, The Catalyst, as well as a blog post written by the Congresswoman herself.
This year we are celebrating 20 years of PEPFAR and an incredible 25 million lives saved. PEPFAR expanded the boundaries of global health in Africa and narrowed the political divide in Washington, thanks in large part to a group of steadfast champions who committed time, leadership, and vital...
On January 28, we mark an important anniversary in the fight to eradicate HIV/AIDS – 20 years since President George W. Bush announced in his State of the Union address a plan for what would soon become PEPFAR – the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Allow us to set the scene: It was January 28, 2003, a chilly winter evening in Washington, DC. Nearly 22 years after the first cases of the disease that would eventually be...
Its a busy week in Washington, DC, as the Members of the 118th Congress officially get to work.
Congress plays a critical role in the fight to end extreme poverty and preventable disease. At ONE, we often talk about the US long legacy of leadership in global health and development. That legacy exists largely because of Congress and lawmakers who have supported, reauthorized, and funded programs and legislation (like PEPFAR, the Global Fund, and the Global Food Security Reauthorization...
ONE activists have returned to Capitol Hill! 35 faith leaders traveled to Washington, DC earlier this month to ask Congress to support strong leadership in the fight against global poverty and disease.
These leaders come from different faith traditions, ethnicities, and political beliefs but ONE thing unites them: Our faith compels us to care for all neighbors, whether they live next door or in Nigeria, they wrote in a letter to Congress.
They spent last week doing exactly that. The world...
Every year, Groundhog Day is when we find out if we’ll be living through an extended winter. But what about an extended pandemic? This Groundhog Day, our progress towards ending COVID-19 in 2022 is shaping up to look a lot like 2020 and 2021. The inaction of world leaders to come up with a global plan to defeat COVID has stuck us in an endless loop of new COVID-19 variants, case surges, school closures, and economic aftershocks. Here are...